Women in Horror Month (WiHM) is an international, grassroots initiative, which encourages supporters to learn about and showcase the underrepresented work of women in the horror industries. As an aspiring writer of Gothic Horror myself, I am standing on the romanticized, exaggerated, and ostentatious silk covered dropped shoulders of many greats before me. Here are my picks that have both entertained and inspired me.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
Interview with the Vampire
By Anne Rice
White is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman